Disclosure: I worked for the Lamont campaign doing web design and production and some writing for the official blog (from 9/5/06 to 11/07/06).

Monday, February 27, 2006

Monday News Round-Up

A pro-Lamont op-ed from the Yale Daily News. Both Lieberman ('64, LAW '67) and Lamont (SOM '80) are alums. A reminder: Lamont is speaking tonight at Yale. (Update: this event is not open to the public). More at the Yale College Democrats' blog. We will hopefully have a write-up of the event tomorrow.

Total number of posts at National Review's "The Corner" since founder and Lieberman supporter William F. Buckley (Yale '50) announced his conclusion that Bush's and Lieberman's Iraq policy has been "a failure" on Friday? 94. Number of posts referencing Buckley's change of heart? Two. A mild rebuttal of an editorial was posted this morning, and quickly downplayed. If any Democrat had written the very same words, there would have been little talk of anything else in the right-wing blogosphere this weekend. Does Joe agree with his mentor's change of heart or not?

The first official campaign meeting for Ned Lamont for Senate will be this Saturday, March 4th, at 10am in New Haven (thanks to Kim for the details). This is not a campaign event per se but a meeting for folks interested in volunteering with the campaign. They're hoping to get 100+ volunteers there.

Another event: Ned will be holding a meet and greet in Ridgefield this coming Sunday, March 5th.

Markos has a post up about how Lieberman as an incumbent has forced members of his party to take unpopular positions and do political gymnastics in order to defend him. This is not how the advantage of incumbency is supposed to work for a party.

posted by tparty at 3:38 PM

Comments:

DailyKos story does a good job. How about Pro life Joe v. Chris Shays? ProLife Joe supported Bush on Terry Schiavo. Shays did not. Hmmm.

So sick of these Daddy-knows-bestisms. How about Lamont's challenge would lead to a sanitation effort that would help the Democrats win back alienated voters who can't tell right from left anymore. Especially when watching Hannity & Imus.